- Title Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Foreword
- About the Authors
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Android
- 1-1. What Is Android?
- 1-2. Exploring the History of Android
- 1-3. Installing the Android SDK
- 1-4. Installing an Android Platform
- 1-5. Creating an Android Virtual Device
- 1-6. Starting the AVD
- 1-7. Migrating to Eclipse
- 1-8. Creating Java Library JARs
- 1-9. Creating Android Library Projects
- 1-10. Using Core Libraries in Applications
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Views, Graphics, and Drawing
- 2-1. Customizing the Window
- 2-2. Creating and Displaying Views
- 2-3. Animating a View
- 2-4. Animating Layout Changes
- 2-5. Creating Drawables as Backgrounds
- 2-6. Creating Custom State Drawables
- 2-7. Applying Masks to Images
- 2-8. Drawing over View Content
- 2-9. Implementing Situation-Specific Layouts
- 2-10. Customizing AdapterView Empty Views
- 2-11. Customizing ListView Rows
- 2-12. Making ListView Section Headers
- 2-13. Creating Compound Controls
- 2-14. Customizing Transition Animations
- 2-15. Creating View Transformations
- 2-16. High-Performance Drawing
- Summary
- Chapter 3: User Interaction Recipes
- 3-1. Leveraging the Action Bar
- 3-2. Locking Activity Orientation
- 3-3. Performing Dynamic Orientation Locking
- 3-4. Manually Handling Rotation
- 3-5. Creating Pop-up Menu Actions
- 3-6. Displaying a User Dialog
- 3-7. Customizing Menus and Actions
- 3-8. Customizing BACK Behavior
- 3-9. Emulating the HOME Button
- 3-10. Monitoring TextView Changes
- 3-11. Customizing Keyboard Actions
- 3-12. Dismissing the Soft Keyboard
- 3-13. Handling Complex Touch Events
- 3-14. Forwarding Touch Events
- 3-15. Blocking Touch Thieves
- 3-16. Making Drag-and-Drop Views
- 3-17. Building a Navigation Drawer
- 3-18. Swiping Between Views
- 3-19. Creating Modular Interfaces
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Communications and Networking
- 4-1. Displaying Web Information
- 4-2. Intercepting WebView Events
- 4-3. Accessing WebView with JavaScript
- 4-4. Downloading an Image File
- 4-5. Downloading Completely in the Background
- 4-6. Accessing a REST API
- 4-7. Parsing JSON
- 4-8. Parsing XML
- 4-9. Receiving SMS
- 4-10. Sending an SMS Message
- 4-11. Communicating over Bluetooth
- 4-12. Querying Network Reachability
- 4-13. Transferring Data with NFC
- 4-14. Connecting over USB
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Interacting with Device Hardware and Media
- 5-1. Integrating Device Location
- 5-2. Mapping Locations
- 5-3. Annotating Maps
- 5-4. Monitoring Location Regions
- 5-5. Capturing Images and Video
- 5-6. Making a Custom Camera Overlay
- 5-7. Recording Audio
- 5-8. Capturing Custom Video
- 5-9. Adding Speech Recognition
- 5-10. Playing Back Audio/Video
- 5-11. Playing Sound Effects
- 5-12. Creating a Tilt Monitor
- 5-13. Monitoring Compass Orientation
- 5-14. Retrieving Metadata from Media Content
- 5-15. Detecting User Motion
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Persisting Data
- 6-1. Making a Preference Screen
- 6-2. Displaying Custom Preferences
- 6-3. Persisting Simple Data
- 6-4. Reading and Writing Files
- 6-5. Using Files as Resources
- 6-6. Managing a Database
- 6-7. Querying a Database
- 6-8. Backing Up Data
- 6-9. Sharing Your Database
- 6-10. Sharing Your SharedPreferences
- 6-11. Sharing Your Other Data
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Interacting with the System
- 7-1. Notifying from the Background
- 7-2. Creating Timed and Periodic Tasks
- 7-3. Scheduling a Periodic Task
- 7-4. Creating Sticky Operations
- 7-5. Running Persistent Background Operations
- 7-6. Launching Other Applications
- 7-7. Launching System Applications
- 7-8. Letting Other Applications Launch Your Application
- 7-9. Interacting with Contacts
- 7-10. Reading Device Media and Documents
- 7-11. Saving Device Media and Documents
- 7-12. Reading Messaging Data
- 7-13. Interacting with the Calendar
- 7-14. Logging Code Execution
- 7-15. Creating a Background Worker
- 7-16. Customizing the Task Stack
- 7-17. Implementing AppWidgets
- 7-18. Supporting Restricted Profiles
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Working with Android NDK and RenderScript
- Index
Android Recipes
A Problem-Solution Approach
Third Edition
Dave Smith
with Jeff Friesen
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